Micromegas and Other Short Fictions

Apr 21, 2025 5:09 AM

Author:Francois Voltaire,Haydn Mason,Theo Cuffe

Something between a tale and a polemic, these "fables of reason" are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the stories in this collection pose moral, philosophical and social questions. Reader and protagonist alike find their assumptions challenged as Voltaire mingles rationality and fantasy.

Reviews

Remarkably good... Perverse, poetic, odd... It will leave you feeling quite wonderful

—— Guardian

'Excellent...This is no headbanging memoir of juvenile depravity, but an unashamed handbook to the sustained pursuit of sex

—— The Times

Consistently clever... genuinely memorable

—— Boston Globe

While each tale is original and complete in itself, a beautiful atmosphere of comic melancholy pervades the whole

—— Esquire

Funny, softhearted and hopeful

—— Los Angeles Times

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